Wednesday 3 April 2013

Evaluation 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

A successful product and artists rely on a certain looks or logos that become a feature associated with their band. This is why it important for all my products to link together as they should establish a 'look' like real media products. 

My ancillary task works extremely effectively with my music video, I feel. This is because each product are linked by specific conventions, that I chose to keep the same for consistency. 
For example, I used the conventional colour pallet in both ancillary tasks and my music video; as I used 'black' for my background on my website and 'red' for the writing in on my advertisement. To link these to my music video, I then used mise-en-scene to express the colour pallet e.g black background. 
I also felt they worked as my artist appeared in all three. This means that the figure in all three media products matched, so an audience could easily associate the artist with his product. I also felt that the character in each product represented the 'Alternative Rock' genre effectively has he fitted the stereotypical look of someone who sing/listens to my genre. 

The only thing I feel that doesn't work effectively, is the use of distortion in the music video but not in my ancillary tasks. This doesn't create a constant theme, however, the audience could view it as a reflection of the song rather than the artist as a whole.